Original 'Cosmo' Girl Helen Gurley Brown Dies At 90

from National Public Radio

Brown became famous in the 1960s with her bestseller Sex and the Single Girl. In it, she urged single women to embrace careers and sexuality. The book led to a three decades long career editing Cosmopolitan. Brown took the magazine from dowdy home and garden coverage to a saucy handbook for single women.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, August 14, 2012